Saturday, July 21, 2012

Review: Negro Leagues Baseball Museum for iPad

via iPad Insight by Patrick Jordan on 7/9/12

Negro Leagues Baseball Museum iPad app

Negro Leagues Baseball Museum was released last week on the iPad App Store. It’s great time to launch the app as we’re now at the mid-point of the MLB season and it’s All-Star week. In fact, the app is currently on offer at a ‘special price’ of $1.99 to mark All-Star week.

Here’s a little excerpt from the App Store page for the app, that gives an intro to the museum that the app celebrates:

Founded in 1990, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM), located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District of Kansas City, MO is a privately funded, non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the rich history of African-American Baseball.

Through the inspiration of Horace M. Peterson III (1945-1992), founder of the Black Archives of Mid-America, a group of local historians, business leaders, and former baseball players came together to create the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Now the museum brings you an app to learn even more about a key time in American history surrounding the league and all of the great players involved, players like Satchel Paige, Cool Papa Bell, Josh Gibson, Jackie Robinson, and many more.

As Buck O’Neil once said, “Man, could we play!”. And they could.

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